Some technicians wrote; <<If it appears that putting in the acujust pins will give a proper bearing, go for it. >> and <<"Why don't you order some accu-just pins from Baldwin and drill & insert 'em?" I find it amazing that most of the technicians I have been reading think that Accu-just hitch pins can be put in any place in any plate. Drilling holes for these pins can weaken a plate, especially when they are put in the line of where the old hitch pins were placed. PERHAPS Baldwin knows better than these technicians and PERHAPS they designed to plate to take the stresses! I know of two pianos that catastrophically failed when Accu-just hitch pins were installed. In both cases the plate broke off at the hitch pin line before the piano was even up to pitch. These failures were back when Accu-just hitch pins had just been introduced, but the pianos currently being "upgraded" with new pins were not designed for this type of replacement. There is not only degradation of the plate strength due to removal of material, but also the leverage effect of not having the strings sit at plate level. Any other disasters out there? Come on you engineers and physicists, - tell me why replacement is all right! Bill Simon Phoenix
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